New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.